AT&T Blames FCC

Quoting a user response to the article by fgoldstein:

"Let me get th is stragiht. On the one hand, ATT is whining that they are desperate for more spectrum, which is why they wanted T-Mobile. On the ohter hand, ATT is whining that so much customer traffic has been offloaded onto WiFi that they are not making enough money to cover their investment, so they have to raise prices.

The contradiction is breathtaking. If it were not ATT, one would begin to wonder, but ATT routinely does things like this to test the fealty of their puppet analysts, regulators and legislators."--"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini

Re: AT&T Blames FCC

First off, if AT&T didn't charge ridiculous prices for HSPDA bandwidth, then nobody would be using WiFi. Second off, they're probably well aware that the higher caps will have little influence on actual usage. If network congestion was really the issue, then they could allow users to have unlimited data usage in off-peak times to discourage big downloads during times of high load.--My pbase gallery

I think att forgot to watch out where it was stepping again. How many times has this criminal corporation got away with things? I for one am glad they didnt get t mobile, and ended up losing big money, but the only problem now is they are gonna be looking to rate hike even more. T-mobile loss recovery fee: 25.00

Re: cheap internet for poor

Or more importantly it should cost exactly what it says on the advertisement. if they say $45/mo for 12mbit then the bill at the end of the month should be for $45 not $60 after all the fee rape.--[65 Arcanist]Filan(High Elf) Zone: Broadband Reports

Hawaii make keep track of all websites visited

As stated in the CNET article:

"Even the Justice Department has only lobbied the U.S. Congress to record Internet Protocol addresses assigned to individuals--users' origin IP address, in other words. It hasn't publicly demanded that companies record the destination IP addresses as well."

Here is the problem: individuals--users' origin IP address. With NAT how are the privacy invaders going to identify who was using the broadband connection. In the case of a shared connection more incorrect identification and malicious prosecutions.

When IPv6 is deployed everyone on the planet can be assigned a personal IP address which they will be required to use to log into the internet along with their biometric ID. That way the websites visited by them can be tracked.

2012-Jan-27 1:28 am: ·

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Re: Hawaii make keep track of all websites visited

Here is the problem: individuals--users' origin IP address. With NAT how are the privacy invaders going to identify who was using the broadband connection. In the case of a shared connection more incorrect identification and malicious prosecutions.

That hasn't stopped the music or movie industries from suing the person who pays for the Internet connection. Never mind the fact that they have NO WAY of knowing who used the connection.